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re·academy

Build a home studio
that doesn't sound like one.

Re·Program is your free home studio setup course. What to buy, what to skip, and how to build a room that records music that actually sounds good.

Bao Pham — Mixology Studios

The Re·Academy Path

The full curriculum, in order

Eight steps from your first home studio to a working freelance career. Start free with Re·Program. Click any course to see what's inside.

01

Re·Program

You Are Here · Free

Home studio setup — what to buy, what to skip, how to build a room that records music that sounds good.

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  • Intro to RE·PROGRAM
  • Home Studio Essentials
  • Your Computer: the central piece
  • Interfaces, Microphones, Headphones & Monitors
  • Essential Accessories
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02

Re·Listen

Coming Soon

Fix your hearing first — mix on headphones, no treated room required.

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  • Introduction — who this is for, what you'll achieve
  • Audio basics, impedance, and headphone types
  • Building your mobile studio setup (tiered budgets)
  • Overcoming mobile mixing challenges (fatigue, bass, crossfeed)
  • Mastering software tools (SoundID, CanOpener, Metric AB)
  • Effective referencing and finalizing mixes
  • Best practices + workflow personalization
  • Working With AI in your headphone workflow
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03

Re·Acoustics

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Fix your room, fix your ears. The acoustic treatment course.

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  • Why your room is lying to you
  • The physics you actually need to understand
  • Diagnosing your specific room's problems
  • Types of treatment — panels, bass traps, diffusers
  • Where to place treatment in your specific room
  • Budget-tiered solutions ($0 / $250 / $1,000+)
  • DIY panel build — step by step
  • Buying pre-built panels — what to look for
  • Room measurement tools (REW, free options)
  • AI-assisted room correction (Sonarworks, Dirac, ARC)
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04

Re·Set

Available Now

Mix Session Preparation. Prep a session right, mix faster, finish stronger. Includes the Re·Voice Vocal Chain walkthrough as bonus content.

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  • RE·SET Introduction — types of sessions, when to accept
  • Logic Pro / GarageBand / ProTools session export
  • Audio stems & files import/setup
  • ProTools modes, sub-menus & shortcuts
  • Go-to ProTools plug-ins for session prep
  • ProTools Session Prep 101
  • Respecting the rough — full stem tracked-out scenario
  • Pitch correction in-depth
  • Full session prep videos + student critiques
  • BONUS — Re·Voice Vocal Chain walkthrough
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05

Re·Mix

Coming Soon

A diagnostic mixing system for any genre, any room. Real sessions, real decisions, real results.

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  • The diagnostic listening framework
  • Gain staging in the mix (resolving conflicting advice)
  • EQ philosophy — surgical vs. musical, additive vs. subtractive
  • Compression — dynamics vs. tone, serial compression
  • Low-end management — kick-bass relationship, masking, HPF strategy
  • Vocal mixing — raw to finished pipeline (extended section)
  • Mix bus & parallel processing
  • Spatial processing — reverb, delay, stereo width without washout
  • Referencing workflow + mono compatibility + device testing
  • Mix translation — why it fails and how to solve it
  • Mixing vocals over stereo beats (hip-hop specific)
  • Co-mixing with AI — stem separation, gain riding, second-opinion AI
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06

Re·Voice Vocal Chain Preset

Optional Add-On

You have the plugins. You've watched the tutorials. Your mixes are good — maybe even professional. But the vocals sit in the mix instead of commanding it. Clean, but not finished. That gap is signal-flow architecture — how the chain is routed, where compression hits, what stays clean, what gets crushed.

What it solves
  • A drop-in vocal chain that closes the gap between "good" and "major-label"
  • Routing, compression staging, and recombination already mapped
  • Full setup walkthrough lives inside Re·Set as a bonus module
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07

Re·Master

Coming Soon

Stop guessing at LUFS. Master for the streaming era with real loudness data and a complete modern chain.

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  • How loudness normalization actually works (platform by platform)
  • What professional masters actually measure (real LUFS data)
  • The -14 LUFS myth — killed with evidence
  • The complete modern mastering chain
  • True peak management and lossy codecs
  • Genre-appropriate loudness targets
  • Apple Digital Masters workflow
  • Self-mastering vs. outsourcing — a decision framework
  • When AI mastering tools are OK, and when they're not
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08

Re·Structure

Coming Soon

The business side of being a freelance engineer. Turn the skills above into sustainable income — pricing, clients, contracts, scaling.

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  • Portfolio creation without a client list (Cambridge MT multitracks)
  • Pricing frameworks with actual calculators — never race to the bottom
  • Client acquisition systems — cold outreach + SoundBetter/Fiverr optimization
  • Contracts and revision management templates
  • Client communication workflows — the hidden career skill
  • Scaling from side hustle to full-time income
  • Passive income — presets, templates, sample packs, eventually courses
  • AI for proposals, client emails, contracts, content creation
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